The new 2.0 version of the Geogad web site is available, and new features are being continually added. Since the basic platform is together and expanding, it is time to start networking for more opportunities for Geogad. So I am taking more time away from the site to build up a better network of contacts.

One event that I recently attended to get more contacts in the tech community is the HYSTA speakers series. I wrote about my first HYSTA talk that I attended a few weeks ago. It is a very impressive organization with a large base of people. The talk itself was standing room only.

I had registered in advance online for the previous talk, but I could not register online this time. I thought that their site might have had a temporary problem. Turns out the overload from the last meeting had caused them to limit the number of people registering. I should have realized that when I showed up for this Saturday’s talk. Since I had not preregistered, I could not attend the talk. But the people who run HYSTA where kind enough to let me chat with people before the talk.

The few people that I spoke with had some great advice for me. One piece of advice is to check out YCombinator, a kind of seed-funding tech incubator. The YCombinator site has a great section on keeping up with tech news in the Valley. This news could be a big help on building up a dynamic tech network. It will be interesting reading their advice for startups.

Tags: HYSTA, networking, YCombinator

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